BlueLeaks 2.0 follows in the tradition of the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI’s and the original BlueLeaks. Where the Citizens’ Commission to Investigate the FBI exposed COINTELPRO and the original BlueLeaks focused on the documents and policies behind fusion centers, BlueLeaks 2.0 provides excruciating detail on the Orwellian “Suspicious Activity Reports” (SARs) and tip collection systems that seeks to make everyone an informant.
For years, we’ve warned against fusion centers and privatizing these systems: the endless retention and largely unregulated information sharing by corporations, as well as the failures to actually protect the identities of both alleged victims and perpetrators. The vulnerable students at tens of thousands of schools that use these systems have a legitimate need to report safety; but Fusion Centers and “turnkey solutions” again prove themselves to be a liability.
Now, we’re left with the task of safely handling the information while making it available to other journalists for study, and to worry about the likelihood off similar breaches committed by financially-motivated or state-backed hackers.
Emma Best, Distributed Denial of Secrets
Statement for the release of BlueLeaks 2.0
